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Young Mary to 'Reign' on CW

Mary, Queen of the Mean Girls Well, no, that's not what CW's Reign is promising: The show is set up to tell you the story of young Mary, Queen of Scots, as a teenager in France, torn between her hot, handsome

Well, no, that's not what CW's Reign is promising. The show is designed to tell you the story of young Mary, Queen of Scots, as a teenager in France, torn between her hot, handsome young fiancé Francis, the future King of France, and Francis's equally hot, illegitimate stepbrother, Bash.

Well, except Francis was actually 14 and sickly, and Bash did not exist. So there's that.

"There is certain latitude in terms of dramatizing events," says producer Laurie McCarthy. "There are many things that happened that never made it into history. ... My job is to tell compelling stories convincingly."

"It's also TV," says star Adelaide Kane, "so you know, we can take creative license. It's entertainment. It's not the History Channel."